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I Care provides town’s first-ever medical care

Distributes 7,500 pairs of glasses during February mission trip

This year’s I Care International mission trip was not only the organization’s first to Trujillo, Honduras, but it was the town’s first time ever receiving medical help.

“This town had never had any medical missions at all. We are the first ones. There were 70-, 80-, 90-year-old people who had never seen any kind of doctor,” said Phil Ortiz of Morris, co-founder of I Care and a retired optometrist.

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